Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Go Rock the Vote! ('80s Style)

Please go visit the good people at Slicing Up Eyeballs and cast your ballot for Best Albums of the 1980's! You get 25 votes and the ballot contains 500 choices, 50 from each year of the decade. Voting ends Friday, Dec. 27, 2013.

Not surprisingly, my ballot skews heavily towards the early part of the decade. I should note that these aren't necessarily my picks for top albums of the '80s, simply my picks from the options provided. As is their prerogative, Slicing Up Eyeballs limited their picks to studio albums only, so no EPs, live albums or compilations. For me, that took out several '80s favorites, including Stop Making Sense and Under a Blood Red Sky. They're also partial to alternative music, so there's no Asia or Donald Fagen on the ballot (and you certainly won't find any Spyro Gyra there). As I continue to make an argument for 1982 being the best year ever for pop music, my final ballot shakes out as follows: